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Human Rights Watch (HRW) released its annual World Report on Thursday, emphasizing the need for emerging governments in the Middle East and North Africa to develop strong human rights commitments in the wake of...

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) said Thursday that Greece must improve detention conditions for migrants and effectively implement recent legislative developments to enhance screening procedures for asylum-seekers. The WGAD, appointed by...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that Hungary violated the European Convention on Human Rights by discriminating against Roma children and wrongly placing them in remedial...

UN Special Rapporteur Mutuma Ruteere on Monday urged the Spanish government at every level to increase its focus on addressing the racial intolerance within its borders. Ruteere noted that a successful campaign against racial discrimination...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday told a special session of the Human Rights Council that 16 nations have failed to prevent members of their own governments from intimidating and...

Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday urged Italy to change its discriminatory policies against the country's Roma . In its report , AI revealed that in the 10 months after the "Nomad Emergency"...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday addressed the world's most significant human rights issues as she opened the 21st session of the UN Human Rights Council . Pillay criticized Bahrain...

Spokespersons for the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) and the UN High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) about a recently passed law in Australia that will...

Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday urged the government of Hungary to protect the nation's Roma communities from attacks. On August 5, violence erupted in the Hungarian village of Devecser when more than a...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that French authorities raided two camps inhabited by Romanian Roma early Thursday morning and evicted all of the more than 200 residents, leaving them without homes. The same day, 240...